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  ROKPA homepage, Karmapa Chenno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The various major events of Sakyamuni's life, such as his family background, his asceticism, etc., were not simple accidents but the meaningful and perfect conclusion to a very long and special story.
In Mahayana Buddhism, it is considered that, from the time he first uttered the bodhisattva vow, the bodhisattva who was to become Sakyamuni Buddha took many hundreds of lifetimes to reach ultimate perfection.
In the particular case of Sakyamuni, he first emanated as ‘Summit of Goodness' to the deva paradise called 'Realm of Great Joy' (Tus´ita) and taught many gods there the paths to liberation and maturity.
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  Sakyamuni Pagoda -- The Tallest Wooden Structure in the World
The Sakyamuni Pagoda, mostly built with timber, is the few existing wooden pagoda and also the tallest in the world.
The Sakyamuni Pagoda is a Buddhist Palace Monastery in Yingxian County, Shanxi Province, or called the Wooden Pagoda in Yingxian County, built in the second year (1056) of the reign of Liao Dynasty Emperor Daozong.
The Sakyamuni Pagoda, honest and simple towering over the vast land of north China, is an artistic expression of the great spirit of the Chinese nation, and has eternal esthetic value.
www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_artqa/2003-09/24/content_38884.htm   (653 words)

  
 The China Society of Fine Arts | "Sakyamuni Buddha"
Sakyamuni Buddha was the first Buddha worshipped with its origins in India.
The gilded bronze statuette of Sakyamuni Buddha resembles in style the example developed at Ghandara in present day Pakistan, which is stocky and youthful.
Sakyamuni Buddha clasps his hands across his stomach, whereas he should have his palms upward and his thumbs barely touching in front of his stomach, which is the standard meditative gesture.
www.marymount.k12.ny.us /marynet/stwbwk02/IXvm02/vmbuddhas/bd2.html   (420 words)

  
 The Sakyamuni Pagoda at Fogong Temple (#) - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
The Sakyamuni Pagoda at Fogong Temple is located northwest of Ying County, Shanxi Province, completely made of wood, it is therefore called the Ying County Wooden Pagoda.
The-Sakyamuni Pagoda at Fogong Temple was built during the 2th year of the Liao Emperor Qing Ning's reign (in 1056) by a monk called Monk Tian, who built it by collecting donations under the order of the emperor.
Facing the gate is a statue of Sakyamuni which is about 10 metres tall, at the top is an exquisite caisson, and there are six portraits of Buddha on the wall.
whc.unesco.org /en/tentativelists/94   (955 words)

  
 Vista View 10/02 p1
Sakyamuni expressed with great, unshakable assurance to Upaka, his full confidence in his true religious experience.
Sakyamuni was a moral, sentient being and not an idealized Buddha.
Sakyamuni Buddha’s confidence was in the eternity of life.
www.vbtemple.org /vistaview/2002/vv0211.htm   (944 words)

  
 Buddhism
Sakyamuni began his progress towards enlightenment in a previous life when he was a monk called Megha.
When Sakyamuni Buddha was born in his final lifetime, his father the king was told by Asita, a great seer, of Sakyamuni's enlightened future.
Sakyamuni saw that when there is no ignorance, the accumulation of karma merit and demerit stops.
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 Buddhist Teachings on Buddhist Enlightenment, Buddhist meditation, Buddha Consciousness and karma
While traveling with the Buddha and his band of disciples, Sakyamuni’s life was threatened by a local governor who, out of jealousy, accused Him of crimes against the state.
The governor was overwhelmed by the display of divine love and devotion of Teacher and student, and dropped from his horse to ask Sakyamuni’s forgiveness, and later became a trusted disciple.
He was famous for the direct way he probed into the depths of his student’s minds and often mirrored the faults they had hidden there to liberate them from the illusions of their mental imagery.
www.humuh.org /lineage.htm   (851 words)

  
 Lecture 3 of ZHUAN FALUN
When Sakyamuni founded his school in his life there were eight religions in circulation in India, among which was a deep-rooted religion called Brahmanism.
As what Sakyamuni preached was Orthodox Law, the Buddha Dharma he taught became more and more overwhelming during the whole course of his teaching, while the other religions went more and more into decline and even the deep-rooted Brahmanism was on the verge of extinction.
They believed that the Dharma Sakyamuni had publicly preached was intended for ordinary listeners and would lead to self-liberation and the attainment of the Arhatship.
www.falundafa.org /book/eng/zfl_32.htm   (1905 words)

  
 Little-Known Stories from History: Lao Zi, Confucius and Sakyamuni
Sakyamuni was born in Kapilavastu of ancient India.
Sakyamuni held compassionate feelings for all mankind from a very young age and liked to ponder on the truth of life.
Because what Sakyamuni taught was the righteous Fa and he continuously out-argued other religions' taught principles, there were always people from other religions who abandoned their religion and became converted to Buddhism.
www.pureinsight.org /pi/index.php?news=4004   (4298 words)

  
 Gohonzon Shu: Dr. Jacquie Stone on the Object of Worship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Sakyamuni is like the single moon in the sky, while the various Buddhas and bodhisattvas are like its reflections in myriad bodies of water.
Sakyamuni is lord of this threefold world; all lesser rulers hold their territories in fief from him.
Sakyamuni also presides over a pure land, the Pure Land of Eagle Peak (ryozen jodo), discussed below, and Nichiren often assured his followers that their deceased relatives were with Sakyamuni there.
nichirenscoffeehouse.net /GohonzonShu/027.html   (495 words)

  
 Buddha Statue: Sakyamuni Buddha Statue, Medicine Buddha Statue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
He is making the gesture of “Touching the earth” Geasture and attitude are equally characteristic of the historic Buddha Sakyamuni and of his earthly predecessors, and of the Dhyani Buddha Akshobhya, the unshakable one.
When repersented, he is white in colour, and his two hands are held against the chest with the tips of the thumbs and forefingers of each hand united.
Before the sakyamuni Buddha's death, he became severely sick.He walked northwest with his disciples and had the food offered by a flsmith.
www.himalayanmart.com /buddhastatue/buddhastatue.php   (1395 words)

  
 buddha sakyamuni
The smooth, golden tone and commanding size of the gilt copper Buddha Sakyamuni pulls the observer’s eyes to the top of the Tibetan altar in the Ackland Art Museum where he sits in calm meditation, elevated above the other pieces.
The Buddha Sakyamuni meditates in the “ground touching” position, revealing the moment he reached enlightenment.
This particular Buddha Sakyamuni, created and used for ritualistic purposes, was probably excavated by Shelton during the mass destruction of Buddhist monasteries in Tibet during the Sino-Tibetan border war of 1905-1918 and was given to the museum in 1920.
www.ackland.org /art/exhibitions/buddhistart/students/lott   (1486 words)

  
 Sample Chapter for Faure, B.: The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality.
Whereas Sakyamuni left his wife Yasodhara and the other women of his gynaeceum without regrets, such renunciation was not always as easy for his disciples, as shown by the case of his half-brother Nanda.
Mara's goal was to make Sakyamuni fall "in the trap of one of the highest values admitted in pre-Buddhist societies: the riposte to aggression, spiritual perfection, and the procreation of heirs." One could argue that Sakyamuni had almost fallen into Mara's trap by marrying the beautiful Yasodhara and begetting a son.
Sakyamuni's son was also called Rahula, another word meaning "obstacle." According to some brahmanical texts, a son's performance of appropriate rituals assures his father of one kind of immortality ("below the navel"), physical immortality.
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 The Oldest Sakyamuni Buddha statuette in China
Chinese Buddhism “first reached its high peak of popularity in the Wei dynasties, which conquered and ruled over large parts of China from 386 AD to 557 AD (3);” thus, in 338 Buddhism was still new to the Chinese people.
However, the Buddha Sakyamuni was worshipped by the rich, the noble people, or in a few pagodas in China because gold was expensive to the popular to own such a sculpture.
Gandhara style through the pilgrims who went to the West to search for the Buddhist Scripts, or because the Chinese sculpture was new to the Chinese people (3).
www.viettrade.net /afghanistan/buddha.htm   (156 words)

  
 Buddhism - Three Great Secret Dharmas
The Honzon or the Object of Veneration is the Original Buddha Sakyamuni revealed in the sixteenth Chapter.
As you see, the Odaimoku as the Object of Veneration and the Statue of Sakyamuni Buddha as the Object of Veneration were revealed before Nichiren Shonin was exiled to Sado Island.
Because of the doctrine of the 3,000 Existences in One Thought, we are able to worship the statue of Sakyamuni Buddha and the scroll of the Mandala Gohonzon.
la.nichirenshu.org /teachings/buddhism.htm   (3009 words)

  
 Gohonzon Shu: Dr. Jacquie Stone on the Object of Worship: An Amazon.com Associate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The reason is that the Lotus Sutra is the father and mother of Sakyamuni and the eye of all Buddhas.
Sakyamuni, Dainichi, and the Buddhas of the ten directions were all born of the Lotus Sutra.
The eternal Sakyamuni and the Dharma (i.e., the daimoku of the Lotus Sutra) are two aspects of an identity; the "three thousand worlds in one thought-moment as actuality" for Nichiren described both the insight of the original Buddha and the truth by which that Buddha is awakened.
nichirenscoffeehouse.net /GohonzonShu/026.html   (377 words)

  
 Stone Buddha - marble Buddhas statues, rock carving Sakyamuni mudra buddhism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The stone Buddhas from Nepal (NP) are sculpted from a harder grey stone found in the Kathmandu valley.
It is the mudra of the accomplishment of the wish to devote oneself to human salvation.
The right arm is extended all the way down, very similar to the Sakyamuni gesture, except that the palm faces outwards in a gesture of giving.
www.hitherandyononline.com /Marblebuddhas/marblebuddhas.htm   (1033 words)

  
 Buddhist beliefs
After years of cultivation, he attained supreme enlightenment and was thence known as Sakyamuni (meaning “sage of the Sakya clan”) Buddha.
As Sakyamuni Buddha was originally a royal prince, he most likely had worn such adornment.
They are traditionally divided into three “baskets” or categories called the Tripitaka: the Sutras (teachings of Sakyamuni Buddha), the Vinaya (rules for monastic life), and the Abhidharma (Buddhist philosophy and psychology).
www.ibps-sweden.com /eng/buddhism/belifes.htm   (3194 words)

  
 Tibetan Buddhism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Buddhism is perhaps the most tolerant of the worlds' religions, and wherever it went it adapted to local conditions, like a dividing cell, creating countless new schools of thought.
Its basic tenets have remained very much the same and all schools are bound together in their faith in the value of the original teaching of the historical Buddha, Sakyamuni.
He is normally seated, with a scarf around his waist, his legs hanging down and his hands by his chest in the mudra of "turning the Wheel of Law".
www.asia-planet.net /tibet/buddhism.htm   (1001 words)

  
 Tibet Travel: Jokhang Temple
The Ramoche Monastery was built to consecrate the life-sized statue of the twelve year-old Sakyamuni and the Jokhang Temple to consecrate the life-sized statue of the eight year-old Sakyamuni.
It is said that there are only three life-sized statues of Sakyamuni in the world that were all molded according to the appearance of Sakyamuni at the ages of eight, twelve and twenty-five, all the three statues were consecrated in India at the beginning.
The statue of eight-year-old Sakyamuni, which the Princess Tritsun brought to Lhasa, was damaged and is not in its full integrity today.
www.tibettrip.com /lhasa/jokhang.htm   (694 words)

  
 Jakona Gallery Sakayamuni Buddha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Sakyamuni Buddha’s characteristics are based on idealist ideas; yet the sculpture was purposely not made to be perfect.
Instead it focussed on living peacefully, a way of life rather than a way to deal with death (as it is seen by the Chinese and the Japanese) was the situation in the country.
The Sakyamuni Buddha was made during one of the most flourishing periods of Korean history, the Golden Age.
www.marymount.k12.ny.us:16080 /marynet/stwbwk03/03vm/Buddha/2sksakyamuni.html   (335 words)

  
 Panchen Lama Pays Homage to Sakyamuni -- china.org.cn
The 11th Panchen Lama paid homage to Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, at the Jokhan Temple in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, Tibet's religious leader, arrived at the Jokhan Temple early on Wednesday morning to pay his annual respects to Sakyamuni.
He presented a "hada", a white scarf which is a symbol of best wishes, and kowtowed before the founder's statue.
www.china.org.cn /english/2006/Aug/178922.htm   (140 words)

  
 The Buddha Fa and Buddhism
Their believers at the time did not even know the name of Buddha Sakyamuni, not to mention whom Buddha Sakyamuni was.
Theravada has always believed that they are orthodox Buddhism taught by Buddha Sakyamuni, for they have indeed inherited in formality the cultivation method used in the era of Buddha Sakyamuni.
Buddha Sakyamuni was enlightened to the Buddha Fa, and attained his fruit status with his enlightenment.
www.falundafa-pa.net /jingwen/jw981217_e.html   (1250 words)

  
 LIFE OF BUDDHA
According to ancient tradition, Queen Maya, his mother, first had a dream of a beautiful white elephant coming down into her womb, and this was interpreted as a sign that the Buddha, or a universal emperor, was about to be born.
He became the monk Gautama, or as he is still called, Sakyamuni, the ascetic of the Sakyas.
By the time he reached the age of 80, Sakyamuni began to feel old.
www.souledout.org /wesak/storybuddha.html   (2161 words)

  
 - SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA-MINI - Sakyamuni Buddha - Mini
The Sakyamuni Buddha is the most well-known Buddha, born 563 B.C. in Nepal.
Sakyamuni means the lion of the Sakya clan.
This traditional statue is made from "recycled brass" and is individually cast using mud or lost wax methods.
www.starmagic.com /store.cgi?0+3D3B3C09   (106 words)

  
 e-quality Preview - A Fine Tibetan Thangka - Sakyamuni Buddha
A Tibetan thangka made of cloth features Sakyamuni Buddha, the historical Buddha - fourth of the one thousand Buddhas predicted to appear in this current eon.
Sakyamuni, surrounded by arhats or monks - the guru for this group is shown at top.
These present to Sakyamuni the five offerings of sensory enjoyment - music for sound, cloth for touch, a mirror for sight, a selection of fruits for taste, and perfume for smell.
www.users.uswest.net /~reachus/aw2k/previewlot12.html   (168 words)

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